Programme Overview:
Basic research rarely helps practitioners directly with their everyday concerns; nevertheless, it stimulates new ways of thinking that have the potential to revolutionise and dramatically improve how practitioners deal with a problem in the future. This lecture aims at providing an example.
At the dawn of the new millennium, attosecond metrology enabled us to capture sub-atomic motions for the first time. A couple of decades later, the new technology paves the way towards precision preventive medicine.
When triggered and captured in the molecules of human blood, these motions can reveal changes in its molecular composition and provide early signs of unfolding health aberrations.
Cost-effective monitoring of human health will address several grand challenges of our time.
Speaker’s Profile:
Professor Ferenc Krausz graduated in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and completed his studies in theoretical physics at the Eötvös Loránd University in 1985. He earned his doctorate in laser physics from the Technische Universität Wien (1991), where he became a professor in 1998. In 2003-2004, he was appointed director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and chair of experimental physics – laser physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität and established ‘Attoworld’ at these two sites (attoworld.de).
In a series of experiments conducted between 2001 and 2004, his team successfully produced and measured isolated attosecond pulses of light, applying them to observe sub-atomic motions. Attoworld has been fostering the proliferation of the emerging field, attosecond science, and – since 2015 – exploring its applications for probing human health. For his contributions to establishing the field of Attosecond Science, Ferenc Krausz has been awarded, among others, the King-Faisal International Prize for Science (2013), the Wolf Prize in Physics (2022), the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2023) and the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Programme Details:
- Programme Period: 7, November 2025
- Class Time: 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm (Hong Kong Time)
- Targeted Audience: S.3-5 / Grade 9-11 / Year 10-12 members
- Programme Fee: Free of charge
- Delivery Mode of Programme: Online via Zoom
- Programme Code: ACT260101
- Application Deadline: November 4, 2026 (Tuesday)
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*Disclaimer: Programme contents and formats are subject to change. The programme is subject to cancellation if there are insufficient applications. Programme fees and application fees are non-refundable.